Camp Bow Wow Tampa South Shore

Worst place I ever worked. They care more about money than the animals. The employees got in trouble multiple times for being physically rough with the dogs, dragging them by their collars, or hitting them instead of using the water spray bottles they are supposed to be using for discipline. I wouldn’t recommend letting your dog stay there. After working there, I’ll never trust leaving my dog at a doggy day care

I have taken my dog here for day camp as well as boarded him here 3 times for 6 – 10 days each time. The cameras are wonderful as you can see your dog using the website or the app on your phone. I always supply my pups own food during his stay, so I’ve never had any issue with bad reactions to food and no food switch ups ever. He has always interacted well with the other dogs from what they have told me and also from what I have seen for myself with the cameras. The no toy policy is understandable to me in the yards because there are just so many dogs, you never know how other dogs will react if a toy is taken from them and it’s better to be safe than sorry. Every time I’ve picked up my little guy we go home and he goes right to sleep from being so exhausted, so he clearly gets plenty of exercise from running around even without toys. Overall I’m very satisfied with the service. I like that I can see him while I travel, he gets to spend time with other dogs, and the staff has always been so kind to him. That’s more than I can say for some other boarding places we’ve been to.

Our dog Dixie loves going to camp here. The facility is nice and clean. The staff is amazing. I know that our fur baby is well taken care of when we drop her off.

This place is wonderful! Literally, everything. I love the safety precautions, the multiple areas to play, the sleeping accommodations and the staff, just to name a few. The cameras giving me the ability to view my pup during play is great. She has a wonderful time and is always exhausted when I bring her home! I’m looking forward to boarding her there for the holiday travels. It’s nice to not have to worry as much!

I really don’t write bad reviews much but when things like this happen its necessary.
I decided to try this place out after a bad experience with them when my dog was given incorrect food causing an allergic reaction, diarrhea, swollen paws and so on about a 1.5 years ago. They gave him medication without consulting with me first to try to remedy his diarrhea during his stay they never called me at all to ask if that was ok. I was very angry and called several times before someone finally called me back who said he was the owners brother and told me that they fed my dog all his food and I asked if you are so sure that you fed him all his food? then why are there 2 portions of my dogs food left in his over night bag? he paused for a while and said sir I have a note here that says you complain a lot. At that point, I was like this guy has some nerve. This was my first time using you to board my dog and I am calling you with concerns about how my dog is being treated and your saying I’m complaining too much, who the H do you think you are? I hung up at that point and moved on making sure I fixed my dogs issues related to his first stay out of my pocket.
(The second time) This time I was short on time and had to leave him at this place again and since they have gotten quite a few 5 star reviews since my last stay, I thought my dog will be ok this time around. I brought my automatic pet feeder in for his stay to insure he is getting fed properly and treats he is allowed to have and informed them to let my pet feeder feed him and give him only the treats I had provided. I wanted to go back to the cabin area to setup his feeder up and make sure no one messes with it but the owners brother said no. I monitored my dog on the cameras through there site and I did see a few instances where there was little to no supervision.
When I went to pick him up I was told the pet feeder did not dispense his food and they had to feed him manually. I was like thats not possible It works every single day and now when I bring it to your place it suddenly stops working! They did not contact me to ask about how much I feed him now but fed him according to what I was feeding him when i first brought him to the camp the first time when he was a puppy which is about double what he gets now. I checked to see what feedings were dispensed because I can track exactly how many meals and portions my dog gets on the pet feeder and the feeding history was completely cleared out they messed with the machine when I told them not to play with it!
After taking him out that night to potty he had a very large amount and much of it was diarrhea confirming the fact that they had overfed him. do you people have a problem with following directions? Seriously! You could have called me to inform me of any issues but yet again they don’t they just do what they want since if they make a mistake they are not liable, right?!
Unfortunately, As guardians for our pets, we don’t have much control on how places like this treat our pets since we sign the waver that pretty much lets them get away with many issues. However, We can post reviews like this one to warn others of issues this place has had.

Turning out bit not to be the place for our German shepherd. Unfortunately the walls are those portable cattle 4ft guards and our dog jumps over them into other dog pens.
Then spends the day in and out of isolation rooms alone.
Not want we wanted for a supposed to be social outing.
Unfortunately staff is not allowed to interact or allow toys for safety reasons, but I believe our dog is too bored to walk around a pen all day. Since the bridges were in the empty yards and not the daycare ones.
*Not suited for enrichment of active or high energy dogs as advertised. Or be to supplemented for walking your dog as mentioned in their webpage.
**Do not substitute for walking your dog since your dog will only get whatever exercise it happens do on it’s own.
Hopefully we can get a refund on the package we bought that was sold to us after they evaluated out dog and she also jumped then.

Update to a previous review…
We used to board our dogs here but don’t any longer. Had an incident with one of my dogs & will not return! Took my dogs to Fuzzie Buddies! It’s a drive but worth it!